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So you’re saying you don’t live in Taiwan.
Also, china has never threatened to annex Taiwan, this comment is complete bullshit lmao.
I wouldn't say "never" but Taiwan and the PRC's claims over it are remnants of a civil war that never formally ended.
While China might engage in war games around Taiwan as a form of posturing, its current place in the world system means that posturing is unlikely to become any kind of forcible annexation.
The PRC, as the world's factory, relies on its perception by much of the world as a reliable trading partner uninterested in foreign intervention. An invasion and annexation of Taiwan would upend this perception and likely drive away trading partners.
I suspect that they're ultimately playing the long game here. Pivot global trade away from the US, Taiwan's biggest foreign patron, and simply let that relationship deteriorate with the US' power projection capabilities, until the increasingly Isolated Taiwanese come to the negotiating table.
Tl;dr - China certainly postures like it wants to annex Taiwan by force, on occasion, but the political-economic reality suggests that they're ultimately not going to do that.
Just like your claims that China is not genociding Uyghurs?
and stall the US is worse
China is actively genociding a group of people and that's pretty bad.
You are a heavy and exaggerated American Exceptionalist who won't admit the US is helping Israel commit a genocide. Even if your claims about the Uyghur were real, the majority of the world will still prefer China over the USA, you understand that, right? You really have no idea how fucking gross, evil and disgusting the USA is coming across in the world stage right now, do you?
Unless you are like a fed with the goal of muddling the water or ruin Americans' reputation/image further with this odd behavior of having over 14,000+ comments in Lemmy, done in just a few months, with like 7+ accounts using the same username, and I remember people talking about you using alts with different names to hype and glaze yourself. You're incredibly obsessed with social medias. You still want people to praise America and think it's the "World Police," "the #1 country in the world," "Humanity's closest thing to an utopia," but it's not happening.
I still believe half of the USA is salvageable; it's not everyone's fault shit is so bad there, it's human nature being unchecked, the greed and corruption coming from the top 1%, and I say this about all the governments of the entire world, including China; I don't trust them, especially with Covid, something many people here would call me crazy for, but I don't care. I think it's weird we don't know anything, or heard a single word from the people involved in the lab of Wuhan, whether an accident or not, shit killed about 7-15 million people, that's almost 3x times the Holocaust, in just 2 years, and with permanent damage for the survivors too. It's odd no more noise was made about that; we deserve to hear them or at least judge them. China silencing Dr. Li Wenliang for being the first one to warn everyone about Covid, I won't forget that either. If it was a biological attack to hurt and make the West look bad, they succeeded. But that's just a conspiracy, one that proves my distrust for China. I can still praise the good shit they do and wish it was adopted if possible, just the same way some stuff America is doing right, like electing Zohran Mandami. Every society slowly evolves by adopting the good bits from previous empires and governments. That's literally a big part of what learning History is all about; "to not repeat the same mistakes again" as my teachers repeatedly said.
It's great to be a Humanist/Socialist/Communist. You prioritize the people or community over everything else, like money or benefiting the Jeffrey Epstein Class with Capitalism. I want people to thrive so they can have more free time and health to focus on doing more art I can consume and have fun exploring. You, in the other hand, just want people to keep cocksucking your narcissistic and patriotic sense of being, because you got nothing else to offer. In the worst case scenario, you just want America to keep killing in the name of profit, because you're probably someone who benefits a lot from it, judging by the amount of free time you have in this platform.
I might write a lot because I don't think short messages do justice to the truth, and also I write books and software for a living, but at least I am not on your level of rot and I thank life everyday for that. Goodbye, SatansMaggotyCumFart. You were a weak foe. Level 1 rat you find in Lumbridge. If you're a fed, you should be fired. I am going to go and play Overwatch 2 in peace now, knowing the majority of people are becoming humanists. People want to see themselves and others at their fullest potential; healthy and happy; power to the people; regulating everything responsibly, like AI; education, food, housing and healthcare being accessible to everyone, not luxuries or something that can kill you financially in less than a day for having an accident or an unforeseen illness... People deserve much better than what they currently have, and it is possible. Elon Musk alone can pay for like a 30th of the entire bill, no joke. Let alone the 3,000+ billionaires and filthy multimillionaires around the world, including Chinese ones, which are soo many, combined; taxed properly. I don't discriminate or have favorites like you always try to guilt-trip people into believing they do. Whataboutism is lowkey your main weapon, but I clean my ass with it, because my weapon is bigger and better. It's also curvier, and more colorful, while yours looks like a toy from a cereal box, you ugly mothafucka.
It isn't hard. You should give it a shot: instead of being endlessly loyal to such a disgusting violent woman like America, you should leave her and marry Humanity. At least Humanity is honest with you, and is more humble and nice, and funny. America is just... Trump. Fuck the concept of borders and countries, but not cultures. Diversity is good for your brain, just like eating a varied diet is for the biome of your gut. Stop being such a loser, eating the same shit everyday, like greasy burgers or whatever, and explore the god damn world already. You were born in it for that, not to stay inside all day, broke all the time, working 8hrs everyday for nothing good; online, making 14,000+ comments in a website that will forget you after a few hours of silence... Grow a pair of balls and abandon your patriotism. Being loyal to Humanity is better. It makes everything a lot clearer and transparent. Adults begin to look like children, nothing scares you anymore, and you develop a sense of humor, which you desperately need, my boy. Why "SatansMaggotyCumFart"? Did you really expect people to take you seriously with that name? Have some class and respect. Be more elegant, like me. Ok? Good.
Goodluck.
That’s a lot of accusations.
Didn't you just try to call me out for whataboutism? What the fuck is this comment, then? lmfao
Threat report reveals China’s plan to annex Taiwan
And you believe US intelligence... Why?
The billionaire rapist pedophile government, which is champing at the bit to finish their illegal war with Iran, which they started, so they can start one with China?
???
Give me a source they say.
It’s not a good enough source they say.
The source is literally "US Intelligence". As per the article.
I don't trust US intelligence under the billionaire pedophile rapist child sex trafficking government.
Do you?
I trust them as much as a genocidal government who’s trying to annex a sovereign country.
Obviously talking about America attempting to annex Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba.
Edit: and Greenland, and Canada.
No.
Chine annexing Taiwan and genociding Uyghurs.
So you do trust the genocidal pedophile child sex trafficking rapist billionaire government when it says China bad, lol. Good boy, I guess.
China isn't annexing Taiwan, and they haven't threatened to do so, as per my original statement.
We have unlimited proof of genocide in Gaza, and Nada when it comes to Xinjiang. You don't find that curious?
https://archivegenocide.org/
Try and find this website by googling it, by the way. Curious.
UN says there’s genocide in China.
Nope, UN says China has undertaken genocidal actions, however they have provided 0 evidence for such claims. If they had any, it would be front page news.
However, Israel is formally accused of committing genocide by most international aid groups, including within Israel itself. And most Western news agencies still refuse to call it a genocide.
You got any proof of equivocal value to the website I just linked you? Thousands of videos of victims?
I know Israel is as genocidal as china and I’m never tried to prove otherwise so I’m unsure of your point here.
One has proof and the other doesn't. Pretty fucking simple thesis, man.
Just because you deny the genocide doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
I'm begging you to show me the proof that you've seen, that convinced you there's a genocide happening. Please show me.
I’m content with believing the UN and the proof they’ve seen.
Well unfortunately my bar is higher than on the ground and I gotta see some pictures or videos in order to believe that there's a genocide happening lol.
Just because you agree with the state that’s sponsoring the genocide doesn’t mean it’s an okay genocide.
So not at all, I would hope? You don't trust them, but you trust them implicitly when it comes to foreign analysis, lol? Did you also think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? What about Iran, lol?
Tell us you don't know anything about Taiwan without telling us.
Taiwan is a country independent from the People's Republic of China.
That's why they have their own currency, passports and governments.
Taiwan claims the entirety of China as its own lol.
Are you claiming that the PRC doesn't try to undermine Taiwan's independence every chance they get or is that just a whataboutism?
PRC has publicly vowed peaceful reunification lol.
Like what Russia is doing to Ukraine?
I'd be cautious of 'unifying' with a genocidal government.
Wait, aren't you subject to a genocidal government lmao?
More whataboutisms.
Actually we were talking about China and America and then you brought up Russia lol..
America is currently doing genocide in the middle east. What you brought up would be the whataboutism.
Is Russia not trying to reunify with Ukraine right now?
I see you dodged the question, why?
Are you medically stupid?
I see you dodged this question again.
I see you confirmed that you are, indeed, medically stupid. Thanks, I guess.
Still dodging the question.
I'm answering your question by saying it's whataboutism, I thought I was making that clear, but again, you are medically stupid, so I'm sorry for not making it as obvious as possible.
Dodged it again.
I'm not dodging it, I'm telling you I'm not answering it, because it's irrelevant to the topic of discussion. Which is the entire point of pointing out whataboutism. Sorry about your condition, by the way.
You dodge it because you know I’m right.
Guess we'll see what happens, then 🙄